The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1887-12-13
Read Mr.. T. S. Morrison's impor-

Read Mr.. I. S. Morriaon's lmpor-
tant statement in an other column.
It will be worth your while to do so.
Heavy tobacco breaks at all the
warehouses yesterday, and excel
lent prices were maintained through
out.
Col. and Mrs. A. T. Davidson will
leave in a short while for Texas, to
spend the winter with relatives in
the Lone Star State.
We ask the prayerful attention Of
the street commissioners to the con-
dition of Woodfin street Immediately
fronting the old College building.
The mud-hole there is almost imposs-
able. A few loads of rock and lit
tie drainage will relieve the nuisance.
A similar spot grieveS the eye just
above the court square. We call at
tention to these two places especially.
We were pleased to meet yester-
day Mr.. l., w. Beach, of Gewanda
N. Y, who is visiting this city for
the winter. stopping at 76 Haywood
street. He is here for pleasure,
health and business. Mr., B. is cor
respondent forthe.Cataraugus county
Gazette, Gowanda, n. Y. We trust
he may be improved by his stay,
and may find much which will in
spire his pen.
Maj. w. Pinkney Mason who has
been doing good educational work
in Asheville during the past
year in connection with Mr.. S, F.
Venable, and latterly by himself,
leaves US tomorrow, we regret to
say, Tor Frederick, Md, where he
has an inviting offer. Maj. Mason
has made many friends here, and
his departure is tho occasion of
much regret.
Hitherto it has been customary for
winter visitors coming to Ashsville
for the benefit of climate, either to
take up their abode at the hotels or in
private boarding houses. These this
winter. are more largely patronized
than ever. Besides these, there are
numbers who bring their families and
enter upon home life by renting hous
es. This is a pleasant feature, as
feel, in their own hemes, more like
citizens than when otherwise isolated.
We thank the Neacs Observer for its
kind and just opinion of Asheville as
expressed in the somewhat doubling
remark of the Danville Register. The
confidence put by the Ne1uS- Obseru-
er in the earnest purpose Of Ashevills
is not naisplaned- With the excep-
ton of the street railway, yet un-
completed project, but now in fair
way of realization, nothing yet has
been undertaken here that has not
been successfully accomplished, and
that quietly and without ostentation.
The improvement of the streets, the
introduction of water supply and its
wide diffusion through the city, the
adoption ON liberal scale of two Sys-
TENS CT electric lighting, the applica-
ton, in addition, of the gas light, the
use of the telephone system, not to
speak of manufacturers and the large
expansion Of the tobacco business jus
titles the NelUS- Observer in the belief
that when the people Of Asheville re-
solve to hold a tobacco fair, thev will
have one. Undertaken it will not e nd
in talk.
The following is from the Ne5v5-
Observer:
"Asheville is talking about having
a tobacco fsir next year.-DGnUiNe
Register"
And when that town talks it gener-
ally means action, vigorous action in
the near future. Danville has reason
to look to her laurels, particularly in
view of the fact that there are other
North Carolina towns as we'll as
Asheville which are approaching her
rapidly if not surprising her as to-
bacco marts-Durham, for instance.
Raleigh, Oxford, Henderson, Reids-
vile, Winston, etc. There is walk
ing ahead for Danville, and the beau
ty of it is that it is all a friendly, le-
gitimatO business rivalry which is go.
ing to do great good to all the people
of Virginia and North Carolino-sis-
ter States and thoroughly sisterly in
the good will they have for each
other.
MEssRs. NICHOLS AND GUDGER.